Thursday, November 30, 2017

Matt Lauer is what happens when men who are terrible to women are given every benefit of the doubt

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Matt Lauer spent the past two decades on the Today deploying his goofiness and matter-of-fact interviewing style to win over television audiences. 

On Wednesday morning, however, viewers awoke to the news that Lauer also engaged in workplace sexual misconduct so grave that NBC fired the million-dollar star. 

This routine of watching successful men stripped of their power feels depressingly familiar in the two-and-a-half months since exposés revealed Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein as a serial predator who harassed and assaulted women. (Weinstein maintains his encounters with his victims were consensual.) Read more...

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